Re: fai and cryptsetup

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 01:00:46AM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Indeed, it was easy :-) - as of 4.0~beta2+experimental17 you should be able to > use cool, thanks. I can build this from svn, right? > instead of just "luks" to get a device encrypted with the passphrase of your > choice.

Re: fai and cryptsetup

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Hi Patrick, Thanks a lot for providing very detailed information. [...] > > Well, it would be a nice start to be able to specify a passphrase in the > disk_config. Shouldn't be that hard, I guess. > On implementation side its possible to feed the passphrase with the aid > of yes to cryptsetup,

Re: fai and cryptsetup

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Michael, On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:29:38PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > This is intentional and documented in the setup-storage man page, last stanza > of > "CAVEATS" (at the very end of the man page). Yes I know. I should have made it more clear that this wasn't meant as a moaning ab

Re: fai and cryptsetup

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Hi Patrick, Thanks a lot for reporting back so quickly! > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 01:29:47PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > Thanks for pointing out the typo, it made debugging much easier; I'll also > > try > > to make the error message a bit more helpful. But, well, debugging revealed >

Re: fai and cryptsetup

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 01:29:47PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Thanks for pointing out the typo, it made debugging much easier; I'll also try > to make the error message a bit more helpful. But, well, debugging revealed a > problem in your config: just as a remark: The installation wor

Re: installation pb with fai 2.4.2 (BUG?)

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden william Famy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le 25/09/2010 14:14, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : Somehow this looks totally similar to https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2010-August/008187.html Maybe you should take a look at that thread and report back...

Re: Installing Debian Squeeze (i386) - No $HOSTNAME set

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
> Am 25.09.2010 00:27, schrieb Michael Tautschnig: > > > >Karl (or anybody else having a squeeze system at hand), could you maybe try > >whether using HOSTNAME=gnomehost makes things work? > > > Yep. This helps - at least for the package selection. > > Still some problems remain: > - Some sc

Re: Installing Debian Squeeze (i386) - No $HOSTNAME set

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Karl Wallner
Am 25.09.2010 00:27, schrieb Michael Tautschnig: Karl (or anybody else having a squeeze system at hand), could you maybe try whether using HOSTNAME=gnomehost makes things work? Yep. This helps - at least for the package selection. Still some problems remain: - Some scripts fail (will

Re: installation pb with fai 2.4.2 (BUG?)

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:25:53 +0200, william Famy > said: > ls /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/var/lib/fai/config > class debconf disk_config files hooks package_config scripts tests This is completetly wrong. Yoiu must not create those subdirectories inside the nfs

Re: installation pb with fai 2.4.2 (BUG?)

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden william Famy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le 25/09/2010 14:06, Thomas Lange a écrit : > >> On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:55:22 +0200, william Famy >> said: > > I hope you are running 3.4.2, not 2.4.2 ;-) ___ [wf:] Yes 3.4.2 > > > > FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs:/

Re: fai and cryptsetup

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Michael, thanks for your quick help :-) On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 01:29:47PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Thanks for pointing out the typo, it made debugging much easier; I'll also try > to make the error message a bit more helpful. But, well, debugging revealed a > problem in your config:

Re: installation pb with fai 2.4.2 (BUG?)

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > fai 3.4.2 15 sept 2010 > And still the message > > FAI_CONFIG_SRC is set to nfs://192.168.100.251/srv/fai/config > mount.nfs: mount point /var/lib/fai/config does not exist. > error in task confdir traceback: task_error main > [...] Somehow this looks totally similar to https://li

Re: installation pb with fai 2.4.2 (BUG?)

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:55:22 +0200, william Famy > said: I hope you are running 3.4.2, not 2.4.2 ;-) > FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs://192.168.100.251/srv/fai/config TRhis semms to be fine. > make-fai-nfsroot.conf: > FAI_CONFIGDIR=/srv/fai/config Did you create your config space on

installation pb with fai 2.4.2 (BUG?)

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden william Famy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi I try install and configure the new FAI 3.4.2 from http://people.debian.org/~mika/fai/release/ I install fai-client_3.4.2_all.deb fai-nfsroot_3.4.2_all.deb fai-server_3.4.2_all.deb fai-doc_3.4.2_all.deb fai-quickstart_3.4.2_all.deb fai-setup-st

Re: setup-storage and preserving partitions

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Hi Toomas, > Hello! > > Here comes the log for the preserve_always:all case. > > Unlike what I thought the flag should do, it still tries to queue > commands to re-create all the partitions. My interpretation of the "all" > would have been not to touch any of the partitioning at all. > > Beside

Re: fai and cryptsetup

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Hi Patrick, [...] > > My configuration currently looks like this: > > disk_config disk1 fstabkey:uuid disklabel:msdos bootable:1 > primary /boot250 ext3rw > primary -20%-25% - - > primary -70%-75% - - > > disk_config cryptsetup > luk

Re: fai and cryptsetup

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, due the thread Carl pointed me at I figured that it should work this way. Thanks for your mail anyway. On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:47:33AM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Which version of FAI are you using? Current versions even include a > luks/cryptsetup example in the man page!? I'm cur

Re: setup-storage and preserving partitions

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
> Hello! > > I am continuing the old thread and my dialogue with Michael about > setup-storage. Those new to the discussion may check the archives for > the history... we started sometime in the spring :-) > > I tested the fai_4.0~beta2+experimental11 with my test system designed > to imitate a r

Re: fai and cryptsetup

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
> Hi, > > I'm currently looking into creating a fai config space from which > I can (re)install my notebook in case it needs to. However I'm somehow > stuck at understanding the cryptsetup support in setup-storage. > > What I need is: > - one partition as luks-formatted > - on this partition an L

Re: cannot stat /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/part_msdos.mod

2010-09-25 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Hi Toomas, Thanks a lot for testing again!!! [...] > > I also tested the install with the --modules parameter entirely removed > from GRUB_PC/10-setup. For my case (ext3 filesystem on the boot > partition) the install proceeded flawlessly and the resulting system > could be booted. I am not sur